Dorothea Broccardi was a fifteenth-century Clarissine nun, copyist, and limner.

Biography

Broccardi was a nun of the Poor Clare order in San Lino, Volterra.[1] Like many members of her community, she worked as a scribe, copyist, and limner.[2] According to historian Marilyn Dunn, "Her miniatures emphasize iconography over artistic aesthetics, presenting saintly models for the nuns."[3]

She collaborated closely with Marianus of Florence.[2] As his amanuensis, she copied his works, chose their titles, and illustrated them in watercolor.[1] Works copied and illuminated by Broccardi, identifiable by her Dorothea scripsit signature,[4] include:

  • Libro dell’Ordine di Santa Chiara[5]
  • Libro delle degnità (MS Volterra, Biblioteca Guarnacchi 6146)[2]
  • Vita di San Francesco (MS Volterra, Biblioteca Guarnacchi 5966)[1][2]
  • Via spirituale (MS Volterra, Biblioteca Guarnacchi 6359)[1][2]
  • Vita del beato Giovanni di Capestrano (MS Volterra, Biblioteca Guarnacchi 6147)[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Knox, L. S. (1 January 2008). Creating Clare of Assisi. Brill. pp. 146–217. ISBN 978-90-474-4306-3. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Roest, Bert (1 January 2013). "Forms of Literary and Artistic Expression". Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform. Brill. pp. 283–345. ISBN 978-90-04-24475-7. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  3. ↑ Dunn, Marilyn (2013). "Convent Creativity". The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-61376-5. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  4. ↑ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Marianus of Florence" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  5. ↑ de Miranda, Walter Luiz Lopes (2020). "Mulheres pintoras através dos tempos: Pré-História até Idade Média". Khronos (in Italian) (10): 1–27. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
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